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Saturday, 17 July 2010 14:15

MS Dynamics CRM

MS Dynamics CRM - Contact Management From Technology's Leading Provider

Image:  Microsoft Dynamics CRMBuild customer loyalty to drive repeat business. Used by leading companies worldwide, business solutions from Microsoft Dynamics CRM are:

  • Flexible, with options for deployment, purchase, and access.
  • Familiar and easy to use because it works like other Microsoft products.
  • Designed to fit your business through extensive customization and partner offerings.

Sales Force Automation

Get your sales force quickly up to speed with the advanced but  easy-to-use features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Take advantage of a  highly intuitive interface and embedded Microsoft Office capabilities to  boost sales productivity, streamline sales cycles, automate lead  management, and gain insights to drive more sales.

 

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Improve sales planning, management

  • Set up territories and teams for optimal organizational efficiency.
  • Create price lists, discounts, and unit groups to streamline offer management.
  • Post sales best practices and tips in the Resource Center.

 

Leads

Automate your lead system

  • Capture and track all lead details in one system.
  • Automatically associate e-mail messages with relevant leads/opportunities.
  • Assign leads and tasks automatically.
  • Simplify lead qualification, scoring, and conversion.
  • Easily segment data to generate leads from your customer base.

 

Opportunities

Manage opportunities effectively.

  • Close deals faster by centrally tracking key data and attributes for each deal.
  • Create and monitor customized offers and pricing for each opportunity.
  • Better track and position against competitors.
  • Track actual revenue dollars by creating/tracking orders and invoices.
  • Establish consistent sales processes enterprise-wide.
  • Use leading sales methodologies like Miller Heiman, SPI, and TAS within Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

 

Accounts

Streamline account management.

  • Track all activities and interactions for each contact or account.
  • Identify influencers, constituents, allies, and roadblocks for each account.
  • Quickly identify cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.
  • Track contract renewal dates and details.
  • Define the parent-child relationships that depict complex organizations.

 

Image:  ProductivityProductivity

Boost sales productivity.

  • Use Microsoft Dynamics CRM within Microsoft Office Outlook.
  • Eliminate redundant e-mail tracking.
  • Improve communication and team collaboration through seamless integration with Microsoft Office productsImprove communication and team collaboration through seamless integration with Microsoft Office products.
  • Promote Office Outlook contacts to Microsoft Dynamics CRM with a few mouse clicks.
  • Easily identify key data points through advanced search.
  • Reduce wasted cycles with robust data-cleansing features.

 

Pipeline

Enhance Pipeline Management.

  • Easily track the sales pipeline for improved financial planning.
  • Increase accuracy of revenue projections with individual or roll-up forecasting.
  • Track revenue goals by dates, fiscal periods, or other predefined criteria.
  • Identify key trends for deals won/lost and optimize the sales process.

 

Workflow

Simplify workflow processes

  • Improve productivity with personal, team, or organizational workflows.
  • Automatically create or assign tasks and activities when rules are triggered.
  • Automate simple or multilevel approvals.
  • Automate scoring and distribution of leads.
  • Set alerts for key events to take proactive measures.
  • Define and enforce consistent sales processes enterprisewide.

 

Mobility

Mobile Express for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

  • Empower your sales force with real-time access to customer data from any Web-enabled device.
  • Better prepare for customer meetings via real-time account details.
  • Rapidly respond to customer requests while on the road.
  • Continuously work details by updating and receiving leads 24/7.
  • Discover new up-sell/cross-sell opportunities right on the spot.

 

Analytics

Gain visibility and improve decision making.

  • View key performance indicators in real time with intuitive dashboards.
  • Use built-in sales reports to conduct detailed analyses without IT assistance.
  • Use robust data cubes for insightful trending analysis.
  • Employ predictive analytics to identify key selling scenarios.
  • Take advantage of the intuitive Report Wizard to instantly create ad-hoc reports.

Customer Service

Transform your customer service into a strategic asset with Microsoft Dynamics CRM customer service solutions. With a 360-degree view of the customer, your agents can resolve issues quickly and reduce handling times with advanced customer service software. By automating processes, you can also reduce costs and help to ensure consistent customer service is delivered across all touchpoints.

 

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Improve account handling.

  • Boost agent productivity with the intuitive user interface.
  • Improve first-call resolution with access to customer histories.
  • Automatically identify and delete duplicate records.
  • Simplify adding, changing, and managing contact information.
  • Model one-to-many, many-to-one, and complex relationships to provide great service.
  • Gain actionable insights.

 

Cases

  • Create, manage, and resolve cases by phone, e-mail, chat, Web, or in-person contact.
  • Use rules-based routing and escalation to speed first call resolution (FCR).
  • Plan and complete case activities manually or automatically and record them for future reference.
  • Deliver appropriate service fast with an at-a-glance view of each customer’s history and service contracts.

 

Contracts

Simplify Contract Management

  • Set up a catalog of products and services to track sales, incidents, and contracts to identify issues with specific offerings.
  • Gain insights to help sell more support contracts.
  • Create a contract repository to streamline case management.
  • Give agents a view of the current status and service eligibility for each customer.

 

Knowledgebase

Tap into proven expertise.

  • Resolve common issues fast and avoid duplicated efforts by using the built-in Knowledge Base as a solutions repository.
  • Share staff expertise and easily publish, store, and access the Knowledge Base information.
  • Distribute Knowledge Base articles about best practices and solutions through the Web or automated e-mail response.

 

Scheduling

Streamline scheduling.

  • Define services with related resources and work schedules to increase precision.
  • Save time with easy, visual scheduling.
  • Get a centralized view of service workers’ calendars and resources to optimize scheduling.
  • Save time and costs with increased visibility into how well current scheduling is fulfilling service goals.

 

Image: WorkflowsWorkflows

Automate Workflows

  • Create personal, workgroup, departmental, or federated workflows with a handy wizard that reduces reliance on IT.
  • Automatically assign activities to specific agents and use rules-based escalation to redirect cases to the right agent.
  • Provide consistent handling across geographic locations with support for multiple languages and currencies.

 

Mobility

Mobility Express For MS Dynamics CRM

  • Deliver notifications and alerts through mobile devices to update customers on service schedules and appointments.
  • Access and send CRM customer service data via any Web-enabled device.
  • Use the Windows Mobile SDK to customize your mobile applications.
  • Enhance customer service with better communications between field service and office staff.

 

Analytics

Enhance service with insight

  • Closely monitor customer service and support processes with dashboards and scorecards.
  • Identify and address issues and refine key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Provide customer service representatives with embedded cross-sell offers tailored to the needs of specific customers.
  • Use built-in reports or create custom reports with a Report Wizard.

Marketing

Get a CRM marketing solution that is flexible, easy to use, and engineered to fit your business. Transform every touchpoint into a marketing opportunity and harness the undiscovered potential within your customer base. With marketing management and automation software from Microsoft Dynamics CRM, you can market more effectively, improve productivity, and gain actionable insight into your marketing campaigns.

 

Image: Data ManagementData

  • Effortlessly import data from other sources into Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
  • Use predefined data-mapping rules or create new ones on the fly.
  • Confirm data import status with automatic e-mail notification.
  • Intelligently cleanse your data to eliminate duplications and decrease your cost per engagement (CPE).

 

Segmentation

Pinpoint your marketing efforts.

  • Use natural language queries to instantly segment customers or prospects.
  • Create highly targeted lists and associate them with campaigns.
  • Set up personal or public data views for reuse.
  • Easily share target lists with colleagues or vendors.
  • Export lists into multiple formats for bulk e-mail or direct-mail communications.

 

Planning

Streamline campaign planning.

  • Plan and track activities, tasks, budgets, and details for each marketing activity.
  • Tailor messages and offers to highly targeted lists.
  • Save time and money with reusable campaign templates.
  • Set up product catalogs, price lists, and discounts for optimal offers.
  • Use predefined workflows to streamline approvals.

 

Execution

Simplify campaign execution.

  • Initiate and distribute campaigns and communications instantly.
  • Use embedded Mail Merge capabilities to instantly send mass communications.
  • Manually or automatically assign tasks or leads to individuals or groups.
  • Create on-the-fly campaigns with the Quick Campaign Wizard.
  • Create rules to trigger responses based on customer interest

 

Events

Manage events efficiently.

  • Track and manage all event and customer details on one central platform.
  • Holistically manage event planning and execution from beginning to end.
  • Track details related to venues, rooms, event sessions, speakers, and sponsors.
  • Track key metrics and measure the return on investment to optimize future events.

 

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Improve response management.

  • Capture and store responses and leads in one place for easy tracking.
  • Score responses using predefined algorithms.
  • Instantly assign leads with full interaction history to the right sales person.
  • Track responses across communications channels, linking them to campaigns and lead sources.
  • Convert responses to leads and opportunities with a few mouse clicks

 

Internet Marketing (MS Dynamics CRM Online Only)

  • Track, manage, and optimize search-engine marketing efforts.
  • Improve data quality by routing leads to a lead-staging area.
  • Identify the revenue impact of each keyword.
  • Research and purchase keywords, and then optimize bids for the highest placement.
  • Create landing pages and data forms without any coding.

 

Productivity

Extend value with Microsoft Office.

  • Use Microsoft Dynamics CRM within Microsoft Office Outlook to be more productive.
  • Eliminate redundant e-mail tracking through Office Outlook synchronization.
  • See co-workers’ availability with the presence feature.
  • Create documents and mail-merges with embedded Office Word capabilities.
  • Add Office Outlook contacts to marketing lists with a few mouse clicks.

 

Workflows

Automate Workflows

  • Boost productivity with personal, team, or organizational workflows.
  • Dynamically assign tasks to the right person using configurable rules.
  • Accelerate approvals using predefined workflows.
  • Automate actions with triggers based on events, time, or business logic.
  • Set alerts and reminders of campaign milestones to inform appropriate people.

 

Mobility

Mobile Express for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

  • Access customer data from any Web-enabled device anywhere, anytime.
  • Track budgets and push through approvals while on the road.
  • Update or create campaigns on the fly.
  • Update, qualify, or assign leads while on the road.
  • Analyze responses, leads, and campaign ROI with rich offline reporting.

 

Analytics

Gain insights for decision making.

  • Measure your marketing success with key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Track key campaign indicators with built-in reports.
  • Identify trends and allocate resources with powerful predictive analytics.
  • Use robust data cubes for trending analyses.
  • Proactively create offers with 360-degree customer views.

 

With MS Dynamics CRM, you can quickly and efficiently convert your organization into a place where leads are captured, evaluated and worked from the handshake to the sale virtually automatically.  Don't take our word for it though.  Contact ATA CRM Solutions at (888) 257-3801 to discuss implementing MS Dynamics CRM in your organization today.

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Saturday, 17 July 2010 13:24

Leadmaster

LEADMASTER - Customized For You & Your Industry

Image: LeadmasterLeadMaster is three solutions in one - SFA CRM, Lead Management Software & Email Marketing with features like campaign management, Outlook integration and mobile access, workflow automation - built-in, easy-to-use & affordable.

LeadMaster is customizable for you and your industry. The field names, forms, dashboard charts and many other functions can be tailored to suit your unique way of doing business resulting in time savings for you and your team.

With LeadMaster you get feature-rich sales management software that is easy-to-use PLUS personal guidance from LeadMaster experts. ATA CRM Solutions is with you from start to finish.

Whether you're new to online lead tracking / SFA CRM / sales management software / lead management software or you're a defector from another system - you'll like the personalization available with LeadMaster. We're here to help you succeed.

Lead Management And Lead Tracking

Image: CRM FeaturesIntegrate your web site into your demand generation efforts by having leads from your landing pages flow directly into the LeadMaster  lead management software in real time - automatically!

Track sales leads throughout the sales cycle from lead generation to closing the sale & beyond - so you'll know what's working, who's selling and who's buying with the click of a mouse..

Get the entire sales & marketing team involved. Enable your field sales, inside sales, resellers, partners and call center agents tracking leads and updating client records and you'll see the results.

Private label the LeadMaster online lead tracking, sales management software & email marketing system and offer it as a value-add to your extended business team, including channel partners.

Lead Capturing

Image: Lead ManagementYou may use Adwords to drive traffic to landing pages, but are you capturing the registrations in your lead management system? To ensure sales opportunities don't fall between the cracks, LeadMaster let's you grab and track leads from multiple sources:

  • Landing Pages, Web Forms & Email
  • 3rd party lead providers
  • Excel Files & Databases
  • Outlook Contacts
  • Trade shows & Direct Mail
  • Call center & Inside Sales..

This results in fewer lost leads and more sales.

Built In EMail Marketing

Image: Email MarketingEveryone from interactive agencies, to Fortune 500 and small businesses can create sophisticated email campaigns with LeadMaster. You also get lead nurturing, analytics & reporting to help you track leads and grow your business.

Use LeadMaster sales management software to stay in touch with your customers and prospects so you'll be the first one who comes to mind when they're ready to buy.

Sales Force Automation

Image: Sales Force AutomationWith LeadMaster's online SFA CRM sales lead management system, you won't have up front capital costs. There's no hefty investment in infrastructure, servers, networks and IT staff. Get the same features as the our competitors most popular version for 1/2 the price.

LeadMaster provides not only savings but agility as you no longer need to worry about installation, upgrades, maintenance, and software licensing. We do all that. You'll never be locked into an onerous long-term agreement so you can adjust your number of users month-by-month.

 

With Leadmaster, you can quickly and efficiently convert your organization into a place where leads are captured, evaluated and worked from the handshake to the sale virtually automatically.  Don't take our word for it though.  Try Leadmaster Free for 30 days by clicking HERE!

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Saturday, 17 July 2010 12:16

CRM On Call

CRM ON CALL - Full CRM Experience At The Best Price

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CRMonCall provides intuitive and cost-effective approaches to the management of corporate sales, marketing and customer service information on customer accounts and contacts, sales leads and opportunities, plus activities including calls, meetings, emails, notes and assigned tasks.

By having an unified system that stores all your leads, enables conversion into opportunities once qualified, can consolidate them to show you a sales pipeline summary, and can accumulate a history of on-going customer account activities, your business gains a distinct competitive advantage.

Sales, Marketing And Customer Service

Image:  Sales, Marketing And Customer ServiceCRMonCall.com provides integrated management of corporate information on customer accounts and contacts, sales leads and opportunities, plus activities including calls, meetings, emails, notes and assigned tasks. Automatic email notifications may optionally be sent to advise users of new contacts, cases, or tasks assigned to them.

The process of selling goods and services to your customers comes down to a series of steps that look something like this:

  • Acquiring and tracking leads;
  • Qualifying them as real opportunities;
  • Quantifying those opportunities, and setting an expected closing date for them;
  • Aggregating all opportunities together into a sales pipeline to see the big picture; and
  • Closing the opportunities as sales.

By having an automated system that remembers all your leads, can convert them into opportunities once qualified, can add them all up to show a sales pipeline, and can accumulate a history of account activities, your business gains three major advantages.

First - you can now see how business is shaping up over the next several months in a more tangible and quantifiable way than ever before. The sales pipeline is your distant early warning system - it shows you when business levels are falling off, or growing faster than anticipated. In a small-to-medium business it is your best friend when it comes to business planning, giving you a more detailed and distant view into the future, helping you to make appropriate staffing and expenditure decisions.

Second - all your sales leads, opportunities, and account history are now formally recorded in a central system that the business owns. Your vulnerability to the sudden defection of sales personnel is much reduced. If a sales person leaves the organization, you still have all the leads and opportunities the business paid to develop, and the account history needed to help a new sales person take over the account quickly and effectively.

Third - the sales person on an account is not the only person in the organization with access to details of activity history. Accounting and service personnel who have direct customer contact can now base their decisions about grey-area judgment calls in the account on hard information from the account history.

Some of the key CRM capabilities of CRMonCall include:

  • Salesforce automation - including lead capture, and the promotion of leads to Opportunities;
  • Opportunity tracking with sales stage and percentage likelihood;
  • Sales pipeline tracking, with graphical charts that offer drill-down from the bar or segment of the chart to the data that underlies it;
  • Definition of sales teams and territories, to manage information sharing and track sales performance by territory;
  • Sales forecasting, and comparison of forecasts to quotas and actuals, by team or by individual;
  • Lead source analysis of sales and opportunities;
  • Flexible reporting, to extract precisely the information you want to see;
  • Corporate calendar management, for arranging calls and meetings; and
  • Integrated Inbound and outbound Email, which is automatically added to account and contact history.

Financial And Inventory Management

Image:  Financial ManagementBeyond the robust sales, marketing and customer service features, CRMonCall provides invaluable financial information as part of its unified approach to business management. Optional modules provided at no additional charge (and controlled by User Permissions) enable these capabilities surrounding Order Management and Inventory Management:

  • Create and organize a product and services catalog, and then prepare customer quotes, sales orders and invoices from that catalog. Once sold, products may be tracked by serial number on service contracts, with their associated case history. If desired, each customer can also have a list of all products or services they have purchased linked to them.
  • Payments may be received and allocated to open invoices, and receipts may be printed as PDF documents. Accounts Receivable statements may be created and printed both at the invoice level, or as full account statements showing A.R. balances.
  • The optional QuickBooks integration module permits the catalog and accounts data, plus invoices and payments, to be synchronized with QuickBooks at regular intervals.
  • Purchase Orders may also be generated and emailed to suppliers, and received Bills may be entered and linked to P.O.s. Outgoing payments may be tracked and allocated to Bills to derive Accounts Payable balances.
  • An Acrobat PDF may be generated for any document (Quote, Invoice, Sales Order, etc..) - using the Create PDF button. Each document may also be automatically generated and emailed (as a PDF attachment) in a single action. Your company name and address details (as well as your company logo) on the PDF come from Company Information data entered in the administration screen. There is support for multiple company addresses plus the appending of large blocks of text for standard terms and conditions, and there are three attractive layouts to choose from. PDFs support multi-byte character sets, and so character sets such as Thai, Chinese and Japanese are supported.

Quotes:

  • The Quotes module manages the creation of customer quotations. Quotes are created by defining a quantity to be sold for each of a number of products or assemblies (complex products), and an account to which they are being quoted. Quotes may also include services and support line items, as well as comment lines for clarification.
  • Each quote consists of one or more product groupings, and each product group may have one or more product, services, or support line items in it. Each group has a name, and a stage, and may also have a group level discount, taxes and shipping cost.
  • Each quote also has a Stage, a Valid Until date, a contact, an account, a shipping provider, and an address - for both bill to and ship to. For each quote the currency and the terms must also be selected.
  • A wide variety of group and line-item level discounts may be defined, and options exist to control user access to non-standard pricing and discounts, and to set pricing by margin or markup percentages. If desired, quotes above a certain total value, or with gross margin below a specified percentage, may require approval. The Quotes detail view illustrates the information captured by a quote within CRMonCall.

Invoices:

  • Invoices may be created by converting a Quote to an Invoice, by creating a new Invoice in much the same way as described above for a Quote, or by generating the Invoice from a Sales Order. Invoices include a Due Date, which is automatically calculated using the terms selected. The Invoices list view highlights any overdue invoices, and an Open Invoices Report lets you track all outstanding invoices.
  • Quotes, Sales Orders, Invoices, Payments, Purchase Orders and Bills may all be customized by selecting the starting number for each, and by specifying a prefix to be used. For example - specifying a prefix of "TLR09-" and a starting number of 1000 will generate an initial Invoice number of TLR09-1000. Payments, Receipts & Statements:
  • Payments may be received and allocated to one or more invoices. Receipts may be generated and printed or emailed.
  • Partially paid invoices may have a statement generated and printed or emailed.
  • Account statements may be generated and printed or emailed. These statements may be created individually or automatically for all accounts with a non-zero balance.

Sales Orders:

  • If desired, Sales Orders may be created as an intermediate step between Quotes and Invoices. Packing Slips and Order Confirmations may be produced and emailed as PDFs.
  • Sales Orders may be used to generate one or more Invoices.

Purchase Orders and Outgoing Payments:

  • Purchase Orders may be created and automatically emailed to suppliers. The Purchase Orders list view highlights any overdue items, and an Open Purchase Orders Report lets you track all outstanding POs.
  • Outgoing Payments may be tracked and allocated to one or more Bills. Payment Advice notes may be generated and printed or emailed.

Image: Inventory ManagementInventory Management:

CRMonCall includes a full inventory management capability. Two key modules perform the bulk of inventory management - Shipping and Receiving. In addition, the Sales Orders and Purchase Orders modules, as well as the Invoices module, evolved to support the tracking of partially received Purchase Orders, and partially shipped Sales Orders or Invoices (depending on how your business operates).

Receiving:

The Receiving module lets users in shipping/receiving document the receipt of a shipment, list the items and quantities received, and link to the related Purchase Order (and Sales Order if any). It documents the inbound shipping provider, number of packages and weight, the supplier's packing slip number, and the date received. For businesses with multiple warehouses, each shipment of products received record will be linked to the warehouse where the products were received, and inventory is adjusted appropriately for that location.

Shipping:

The Shipping module lets users in shipping/receiving record the shipments they send out. As well, it links to the FedEx and UPS shipping and tracking web services to automate those activities when using these shipping providers. It documents the outbound shipping provider, number of packages and weight, the packing slip number (it can also produce PDFs of packing slips), and the date shipped. For businesses with multiple warehouses, each packing slip will be linked to the warehouse from which the products were shipped, and inventory is adjusted appropriately for that location. Note: Serial numbers are tracked from receiving, through the Sales Order and Invoice and on to the Packing Slip. Additionally, Supported Products are linked to client accounts, and also track product serial numbers.

Project And Resource Management

Image: Project ManagementCRM On Call tracks the performance of current projects, and organizes a history of all project-related documents, status reports, tasks and contacts. Utilization, and time booked to project tasks, are also tracked for resources assigned to the project.

Within CRM On Call, a project is organized as:

  • A main panel containing summary information about the project
  • A financial information panel containing a summary of expected and actual costs and revenue for each month of the project
  • A number of sub-panels linking in related information

There are a number of common sub-panels - such as Open Activities, History, Contacts, Documents and Opportunities - but also a special sub-panel entitled Project Tasks.

Project tasks include information about the start and due date for each task, the resources assigned to the task, the utilization percentage for those resources on this task, and the hourly cost for those resource on this task (by default the standard hourly cost is used from their HR profile).

When a project task is active, resources may book time to the project and to that project task specifically. At the end of each time period, resources file timesheets, which automatically include all time they have booked to projects or service cases during that time period.

Once their timesheets are approved, the costs for their work accrue to the project and are displayed on the project's summary table of costs and income. And a project's as-yet-unbilled booked hours may be invoiced at any time. With a single mouse-click, the user has an invoice open with all billable hours detailed on it, ready to print or email.

Image: Document ManagementThe CRM On Call Calendar filter may be set to show project task assignments for any resources you want to check on.

Gantt charts may be displayed for any project to review progress on tasks, reorder display of tasks, and click through to view detailed task information.

Customers may collaborate on projects via the Self-Service Portal, checking on the progress and anticipated completion dates of tasks, uploading or downloading project documents, and accessing contact information for project members.

Document Management:

CRM On Call enables the sharing of business documents - from HR claim forms and Marketing collateral to Engineering designs.

  • Multiple revisions may be stored ensuring only approved documents are used.
  • Documents in any format can be filed, and may be searched by title, description, file type, status, department, keywords and owner.
  • Documents may be associated with Projects, Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, or Service Cases.

A project can have all of the project's documentation attached to it. An account, lead or contact can have all related documents attached, and supporting documents for a service case can be attached to it.

Customer Support And Service Case Management

Image: Case ManagementThe CRM On Call case management system allows users to track customer problems and resolutions through their life-cycle. Cases may be assigned High, Medium or Low priority. They have a status of Active - New, Active - Assigned, Pending, Closed - Complete, or Closed - No Fault. Each Case tracks the related account and contact, any service contract, and the description and serial number of any hardware asset involved in the Case. Hours spent on service cases may be booked to the case, and automatically invoiced later on, including any spare parts used.

CRM On Call also includes a service contract management system that tracks the products on each service contract, and reminds you of contract renewals. The Service Contracts module combines with the Supported Products, Cases and Help-Desk modules to provide a comprehensive service management capability.

On entry to the service contracts module, all contracts are listed with their contract numbers, and the associated Account. Each master service contract can have any number of associated sub-contracts, and each of those may have any number of supported products associated with them for support coverage.

Each service sub-contract has a start and end date, and is color coded accordingly - Red for expired contracts, Yellow for contracts expiring in the next 30 days, and Green for active contracts. Each master service contract is also colour coded, using the most out-of-date colour of any of its sub-contracts - so that expiring sub-contracts can push colour coded reminders through to the master contract list view.

Clients can file cases and help-desk* incidents via the Self-Service Portal, and both employees and customers can be automatically notified via email if cases they are involved in are updated.

* Software Bugs module Software Bugs are defects or features associated with a particular revision of a software product. They may be managed and tracked through their life-cycle using the Software Bugs module. Bugs may be assigned a priority of Urgent, High, Medium and Low. They have a status of New, Assigned, Closed, Pending Input, or Rejected. Each Bug also specifies a related software release. The drop-down list of choices for release is populated by the System Administrator using the Software Bugs - Releases Administration option within the administration screens. Each Bug may also be assigned a resolution status of Accepted, Duplicate, Fixed, Out of Date, Invalid, or Later.

Reporting

Image: DashboardsAs your organization grows larger and data becomes more complex, a capable reporting system is a fundamental requirement.

Within CRMonCall the reports module shows a list of available reports. You may click on the name of a report to run that report, or to see the archived results of previous runs of that report. Each report listed shows its name, the principal module on which it reports, when it was last run, when it was last modified, and if it is set to run manually, interactively or automatically on a timed basis. Scheduled reports may be automatically emailed to a distribution list. Just imagine - your business tells you how it is doing without being asked!

A number of predefined standard reports are included with the system, and new report designs may be easily developed and saved for repeated use in future. Reports can include multiple sort keys, grouping, filters, and may relate data in multiple modules. Acrobat PDF documents may be created from any report, and report data may also be exported to several common file formats including CSV and HTML.

Reports may also generate charts of their data, and these charts may then be added to your Personal Dashboard.

Graphical Dashboard Charts:

The system provides graphical dashboards for Sales, Service, Financials, and Projects. As well, a Personal Dashboard allows you to assemble and re-order a list of your key charts, including charts created from your own custom reports. When the system is initially created, these dashboards include the following charts:

Sales Dashboard:

  • Fiscal Year Booked Sales (Horizontal bar chart: Shows the 12 months of the current fiscal year, and the value of sales booked for each of those months.)
  • Weighted & Gross Opportunities by Month (Horizontal bar chart: Shows, for the 12 month period starting last month, the gross and weighted (by probability) value of the opportunities for each month - the sales pipeline.)
  • Pipeline by Sales Stage (Horizontal stacked bar chart: Shows the total value of potential sales at each stage of the sales pipeline.)
  • All Opportunities by Lead Source by Outcome (Horizontal stacked bar chart: Shows a stacked bar of the total opportunities for each lead source. Each bar is made up of multi-colored segments which represent the outcome proportions for that lead source.)
  • Pipeline by Month by Outcome (Vertical stacked bar chart: Each bar shows the total sales pipeline for each month. Each bar is made up of multi-colored segments which represent the outcome proportions for the pipeline in that month.)
  • All Opportunities by Lead Source (Pie chart: Shows a simple pie visualization of the proportion of total sales opportunities for each lead source.)

Service Dashboard:

  • Cases by Status by User (Horizontal stacked bar chart: Shows the breakdown of cases by status, for each user.)
  • Cases by Priority by Month (Vertical stacked bar chart: Shows the breakdown of cases by priority, for each month.)
  • Bugs by Status by User (Horizontal stacked bar chart: Shows the breakdown of software bugs by status, for each user.)
  • Bugs by Priority by Month (Vertical stacked bar chart: Shows the breakdown of software bugs by priority, for each month.)

Financial Dashboard:

  • Fiscal Year Invoiced Sales (Horizontal bar chart: Shows the 12 months of the current fiscal year, and the value of sales invoiced for each of those months.)
  • Fiscal Year Booked Sales (Horizontal bar chart: Shows the 12 months of the current fiscal year, and the value of sales booked for each of those months.)
  • Project Expected Revenue by Month (Vertical stacked bar chart: Shows the forecast income from Projects. The various color bar segments are used to represent projects which have different status. The six months starting last month are represented.)

Projects Dashboard:

  • Project Expected Revenue by Month (Vertical stacked bar chart: Shows the forecast income from Projects. The various color bar segments are used to represent projects which have different status. The six months starting last month are represented.)

Each chart may be customized by clicking on the Edit button by the top right corner of the chart. This will bring up a small dialog area which permits you to specify parameters of the chart.

A remarkably powerful feature of the Dashboard is that the charts allow for drilling down into the actual underlying data. This means that each distinctively colored area on every chart is actively linked to the set of opportunities it represents - simply click on an area to see those opportunities.

CRM is arguably the most complete, well rounded and affordable product on the market today.  Contact ATA CRM SOLUTIONS today at (888) 257-3801 to discuss adding CRM On Call to your organization and start capitalizing on all of your prospective business today!

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Friday, 16 July 2010 01:45

Customer Service

Image: CRM Help DeskAt ATA CRM Solutions, it's our goal to provide our customers with the best customer service available today.

ATA CRM Solutions, we have a dedicated customer support team in place to provide the best service available to solve your CRM questions and issues which may arise.

ATA CRM Solutions has a helpdesk assigned to work directly with our CRM customers throughout the work day.

Additionally, ATA CRM Solutions provides our CRM customers with a 24/7 online ticketing system to report non-essential solutions as they arise.

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Friday, 16 July 2010 00:33

Thank You For Your Interest

Image: Thank YouATA CRM SOLUTIONS would like to thank you for your interest in our application offerings.  One of our representatives will contact you shortly to discuss our applications and get your organization positioned into the CRM solution that makes the most sense to your business environment.

If you would like to contact someone immediately, please feel free to call our offices at (888) 257-3801.

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Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:07

Welcome To ATA CRM Solutions

Image:  ATA CRM SolutionsWelcome to ATA CRM Solutions.  Here at ATA CRM Solutions, it's our mission to fit your business with the best CRM solution that best fulfills your business' needs and objectives.  While most CRM solution companies work strictly with one package, ATA CRM Solutions focuses on a variety of packages with a wide scope of features in order to best outfit  your organization with the exact structure you need to best optimize leads, market, prospect, and drive sales from initial contact right through signing a contract.  ATA CRM Solutions additionally acts as your service provider; providing direct support to your organization through direct telephone support and 24/7 trouble ticketing.

ATA CRM Solutions currently provides implementation and support for the following CRM Solutions:

CRM On Call

Image: CRM On CallCRMonCall provides intuitive and cost-effective approaches to the management of corporate sales, marketing and customer service information on customer accounts and contacts, sales leads and opportunities, plus activities including calls, meetings, emails, notes and assigned tasks.

By having an unified system that stores all your leads, enables conversion into opportunities once qualified, can consolidate them to show you a sales pipeline summary, and can accumulate a history of on-going customer account activities, your business gains a distinct competitive advantage.

CLICK HERE for a more thorough look at CRM On Call.

Leadmaster

Image:  LeadmasterIt's easy to see how leads can get lost on the long trek between lead generation and closing. Things get complicated when hundreds of leads - some hot, some cold, some lukewarm - require lead tracking all at the same time. This is when disconnects can occur in the lead management pipeline causing lost sales opportunities. You're not alone, Yankee Group estimates 40% to 80% of sales leads are lost, not followed up or otherwise mismanaged somewhere in the sales and marketing workflow.

LeadMaster Lead Management Software provides the kind of lead tracking oversight that keeps prospects in view as they proceed through the lead management / sales cycle.

LeadMaster's CRM system gives companies access to an online database where their leads from many different sources (telemarketing, web forms, trade show sign ups, direct mail) can easily be entered abd consolidated into one easily accessible online system. Because LeadMaster is a cloud computing solution, those leads can be accessed from any authorized representative, even channel partners if they're authorized, from any web enabled device 24/7.

CLICK HERE For More Information On Leadmaster CRM.

MS Dynamics CRM

Image:  MS Dynamics CRMMicrosoft Dynamics is a line of familiar, adaptable enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions designed to meet almost any business need and help your people make important business decisions confidently. Microsoft Dynamics works like and with familiar Microsoft software—easing adoption and reducing the risks in implementing a new solution. These solutions automate and streamline financial, business intelligence, and supply chain processes in a way that can help you drive business success.

Get the facts you need to see how Microsoft Dynamics is designed to be a management solution familiar to your people, work easily with the systems your company already has implemented, empower people and teams to be productive, and help you drive business success.

Goldmine

Image:  Front Range SolutionsGoldMine Premium Edition 9.0, the latest release to the award winning GoldMine CRM Solutions product line. GoldMine Premium Edition: Gain insight, increase knowledge… achieve better results!

A Customer Relationship Management solution should provide you real-time access to your customer facing team’s processes, as well as an easy, quick view into the state of your client interactions. Static reports and analysis in the past were acceptable, but with today’s constant changing business landscape and the ever growing need for information, instant views into your data is vital for you to make those important day to day decisions. With GMPE 9.0, you can do just that!

CLICK HERE for more information on Goldmine By Front Range Solutions.



ATA CRM Solutions is proud to offer these great, cutting edge solutions, to businesses and organizations such as yours that realize the importance of accurately managing new leads from the handshake to the completion of the sale.  In today's age with an increasingly tough economy, it is imperative that nothing gets missed when it comes to sales leads and opportunities.  At ATA CRM Solutions, we are experts in working with organizations to design and implement the best system to meet your business needs.  Contact us to discuss the solution that best fits your needs.

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